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Palm Springs alcohol sting: Check out the stores that were busted

I’m taking the unusual step of posting a non-West Palm Beach story on West Palm Beat. On Sunday, I was assigned the weekend shift at the Post (reporters rotate weekend shifts), and a story about a Palm Springs alcohol bust wound up on my desk.

It caught my eye right away because of the sheer magnitude of the bust. The Village of Palm Springs has just 14,690 residents and, as I learned on Sunday, 34 convenience stores, gas stations, nightclubs, etc, sell alcohol.

On Saturday night, the Palm Springs police sent a 19-year-old woman undercover to try to buy alcohol at all 34 locations. She was successful at 12 out of 28 stores and four out of six clubs — nearly half of the alcoholic establishments in Palm Springs. You can read the story here.

After the story was published, several people contacted me and wanted to know which stores were busted. So here’s the list. Perhaps there is a connection for West Palm residents — were your underage kids driving to neighboring Palm Springs to buy alcohol at one of these locations, or would half of all alcohol establishments in most cities and towns sell without ID?